Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Misamari refugee camp in the steaming jungles of Assam came bitter complaints of Indian neglect in the care of thousands of Tibetans who had fled the Red Chinese terror in their homeland. The refugees were reportedly crowded as many as 60 to a room, suffering from malnutrition, infected sores, malarial fevers and systematic looting by rapacious guards. Some had even given up in despair and returned to Communist-run Tibet...
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE-"Some episodes are (perhaps fortunately) far too mature for children to comprehend. For youth and adults alike, the total effect is one of confusion, distortion and terror -an effect compounded by the poor quality of much of the acting...
...into the canyon, sealing it from wall to wall for three-quarters of a mile and damming the Madison into a natural lake. Between the slide and Hebgen Dam, 260 other campers and fishermen were trapped in the Madison's canyon, dazed and shaken by a night of terror as the ground shook beneath them. Elsewhere, wide fissures scarred roads and ranches where the main fault, cause of the quake, had dropped parts of the land as much...
...sent observers to Laos, and held secret conferences in Peking with North Viet Nam Boss Ho Chi Minh. Moscow's Pravda blamed all the trouble on the U.S., and said that the Laotian government is pushing the country to "the abyss of civil war" by a policy of "terror and savage reprisals against the patriotic forces...
...terror began when one of the 100 elephants in the procession stepped on some live coals dropped by accident from a torch. Trumpeting with pain, the huge beast charged its keeper, who daringly managed to catch it. chain the injured animal to a lamppost. The crowd closed in, jeering and taunting. Someone tried to shorten its chain, instead freed the maddened elephant, which this time charged the tormenting crowd, stomping with legs like tree trunks, flailing, smashing. A woman and child fell under its feet. The fleeing mob trampled eleven more people to death and injured 316 before the elephant...